Outer Dark

Cormac McCarthy

earliest edition we have, 1970 Picador, 1994 paperback 256 pages

A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying strangers, toward an apocalyptic resolution.

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Editions we hold

Outer Dark edition · 2024 · Pan Macmillan · 9781035039029
Outer Dark audiobook · 2013 · Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781664412132
Outer Dark paperback · 2011 · n/a · 9781447212461
Outer Dark edition · 2010 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9781299010437
Outer Dark edition · 2010 · Pan Macmillan · 256 pages · 9780330511223
Outer Dark edition · 2010 · Pan Macmillan · 9780330474801
Oscuridad exterior hardcover · 2002 · Plaza y Janes · 224 pages · 9781400002931
L'obscurité du dehors paperback · 1998 · Seuil · 226 pages · 9782020309639
Draußen im Dunkel. paperback · 1996 · Rowohlt Tb. · 9783499139086
Outer Dark edition · 1994 · Smith Publisher, Incorporated, Peter · 9780844667492
The Outer Dark paperback · 1994 · Picador · 256 pages · 9780330314923
Outer dark edition · 1993 · Vintage Books · 242 pages · 9780679728733

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